My father is the gentlest of men, not a tyrant.

Her gaze when it lifted to his was gentle and full of understanding.

That was under the gentle questioning of the prosecution, which finished with her this morning.

She had thought a swordsman might be brutal, but he was the most gentle of men.

It was most gentle of you to wait for me.

She, with the gentlest of touches, led her husband by the nose.

She turned this way and that at the gentle urging of his hands.

But perhaps the gentlest and certainly most honest treatment of failure comes in literature.

Their imagined democracy is a gentle one, more representative of the system by definition than practice.

Harry allowed himself to be pulled to his feet by the gentlest of pressure.